Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521528566
Subjects: Education; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; History; History: World; Austria; Germany; Administration - General; Europe - General; Education, Compulsory--Germany--Prussia--Hist; Education, Compulsory--Germany--Prussia--History--18th century; Education-Administration - General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: To understand the peculiarities of popular education in early modern Prussia and Austria, one must keep in mind that primary schooling, like the Old Regime itself, was not a coherent "system."